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Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature
"In the second chapter I compare the structural similarities of three narratives of coniuratio by three very different authors: Livy's account of the Bacchic conspiracy (39.8--19), the conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso in Tacitus' Annales (15.48--74), and Cicero's Catilinarians. All three stories have …
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Pudor as a Criterion in Latin Literature
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Ammianus Marcellinus' Knowledge and Use of Republican Latin Literature
… or alleged parallels and borrowings from earlier Latin authors in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus. None have examined the extent of his knowledge of the authors in question nor the use which he made of their works. This dissertation attempts to do these things.
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Ammianus Marcellinus' knowledge and use of Republican Latin literature
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Studies in fourth and fifth century Latin literature with particular reference to Ausonius
… subject to influences not only from Roman literature but also from<br/>native traditions, the result of the Celtic Renaissance of the third century.<br/>It will be concluded, however, that despite these indisputable influences<br/>and also their undoubted local patriotism, all the writers …
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Captatio in law, life and literature : a study of the topos of inheritance-hunting in the context of Roman testamentary legislation and social practice
"Captatio and the captator are stock elements of literature and undoubtedly existed in life, but as actual practice and figure in Roman society they are nearly impossible to identify" (Champlin 1989: 212). Captatio (inheritancehunting), as it appears in Latin literature, can be defined as the …
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A study of furor in Republican and Augustan literature
… investigation is a study of the concept furor in Latin literature from the beginnings through the middle of the Augustan Age. The purpose is to show that the complex ideas behind the term furor developed by degrees until the word became a general term for "madness." No attempt in this thesis is …
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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
… genre of the philosophical dialogue was used by Latin authors in late antiquity (300–700 AD) to negotiate ongoing anti-heretical debates. ❧Traditional scholarship on this topic has focused mostly on the Greek dialogues. When the Latin material received attention, it was read in terms of its …
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Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland
… and importance of his contribution to Hiberno-Latin literature. This study demonstrates the significance of Patrick's texts through discussion of Patrick's rhetorical astuteness and application of classical rhetorical techniques to a new and challenging context: that of a disseminating …
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The Syntax of the Nominal Forms of the Verb in Livy Book XXX
… exhibit the use of the form in all periods of Latin literature, and, consequently, show Livy's adherence to or his divergence from the Classical usage. The treatment of the verbals is based upon the subject matter relative to these forms contained in Stols-Sehmalz, Lateinische Grammatik, 5th …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
Greek and Latin literature of the Roman empire is full of descriptions of artworks (a phenomenon known as “ecphrasis”). Even though these descriptions have received much scholarly attention in recent decades, Classicists have not yet taken seriously an approach to ecphrasis that was demonstrably …
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Eighteenth-century Latin Occasional Literature of Lithuania from the Point of View of Literary Genetics /
… It is the first research of eighteenth-century Latin literature of Lithuania. It encompasses occasional literature by the Jesuits and the Piarists, two religious orders that at the time were most active from educational and cultural points of view. The first part of the thesis body deals with …
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Studies in the Ancient Reception of Seneca the Younger
… consequence of this is that the period of Latin literature so often simplistically characterised as one of stylistic aversion to Seneca can now be appreciated as one that engaged frequently and closely with the philosopher’s work and thought. A second consequence is broader still: in …
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Space and Spatial Metaphor in the Texts of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger
This thesis looks at the use of spatial images and metaphors in the works of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. It considers natural and architectural spaces in the works of both authors and explores how each made use of this imagery to serve the aims of his texts. While acknowledging the …
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Empire and poetry in the Roman republic
… the Roman republic. I bring together republican Latin poetry and historical approaches to Roman imperialism in a kind of Saidian ‘contrapuntal reading’. This allows new insights into the poetry of Lucilius and Catullus, and advances our understanding of an important stage in the development of …
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Reading for the Republic: The Minor Declamations and the Culture of the Past
The Latin exercise of controversia, which tasked its participant with arguing as either the prosecution or defence in a mock legal dispute, is thought to have emerged during the later years of the Roman Republic when it was performed by politicians no lesser than Pompeius Magnus, Cicero, Marcus …
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Play in the Roman imagination
… complex semantics of lexemes for play in the Latin language than in English (*ludus* also means e.g., ‘school’, ‘public festival’, ‘trick’), the study will move beyond the associations that the English concept ‘play’ suggests. The thesis argues that ‘play’ is a fundamental notion for Plautus’ …
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Inimicitiae in Tacitus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Agiografia, politica e società nella Bretagna medievale: edizione e confronto delle diverse vitae di san Macuto
… century. The BHL (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina) lists six texts connected to this figure: five vitae, three of which are early medieval (one of these, BHL 5116, was written by a deacon of the same Alet and the other two, BHL 5117 and BHL 5118, are anonymous) and two late medieval (one …
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
Book 6 of Statius’ *Thebaid* narrates the climax of the Argive army’s stay at Nemea: the funeral of the royal prince Opheltes, who had been killed by the serpent of Jupiter in Book 5, and the athletic games held in his honour. This thesis contains a line-by-line commentary on the opening section, …
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